Sports in the Pulp Magazines

From the late 1800s through the first half of the 1900s, pulp magazines - costing a dime and filled with both fiction and nonfiction - were a staple of American life. Though often overlooked by popular culturalists, sports were one of the staples of the pulp scene; such standards as the
National Police Gazette
and
All-Story
carried some sports stories, and several publications, such as
Sport Story Magazine , were entirely devoted to them.An overview of the pulps is followed by an examination of those devoted to sports: how they came into being, the development of the genre, the popularity of its heroes, and coverage of real-life events. The roles of editors, writers, artists, and publishers are then fully covered. A chapter on Street & Smith, the foremost publisher of sports pulps, follows, while a concluding chapter discusses the reasons for the demise of the pulps in the early 1950s.